Kyoto, Japan - March 29, 2015: Torii gates in Fushimi Inari Shrine.
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Kyoto, Japan - November 7, 2014: Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine of Inari and is an Unesco World Heritage site. Mini fox statues available for purchase. Inari is the god of rice and Inari is also the god of foxes. This explains why there are so many fox statues in this shrine. November 7, 2014 Kyoto,Japan
Kyoto, Japan - October 20, 2012: People walking inside Torii gates at Fushimi Inari in Kyoto Japan. Torii are traditional gates found at the entrance of Shinto shrines and mark the frontier from the profane to the sacred. Fushimi Inari Taisha is the main shrine of Inari and is located in Fushimi-ku in Kyoto. Inari the god of rice is also patron of business. Each of the thousands of Torii gates here is donated and inscribed by a business in an attempt to attract wealth and success. Over ten thousand of this gates are spread all over the Inari mountain.
Kyoto, Japan - Sep 29, 2017: Torii Gates of Fushimi Inari shrine, Kyoto, Japan Fushimi Inari Shrine is famous for the countless torii gates, offerings by worshippers, that cover the hiking trails of Inarisan, the wooded mountain behind the shrine's main buildings. It takes about two hours to walk along the whole trail.
Kyoto, Japan-June 3, 2018: Tunnels of Torii gates, donated by worshipers. Fushimi Inari Shrine is the Head Shrine of 30,000 Inari-sha shrines nationwide. It has been a place for wide worship for the guardian god of abundant crops, business prosperity and family safety since the Inari Okami (god of harvest) was housed in 711. At the shrine’s entrance stands Romon Gate (Two-story Gate). The main hall of the shrine (Honden) and other buildings stand behind Romon Gate. The Shrine is famous for Torii gates called 1,000 Shrine Gates. Actually there are about 10,000 vermilion Torii gates nowadays leading high up to Mt Inari behind the shrine. They were donated by worshipers from all over Japan as a testament of their prayers and gratitude. The Torii gates have started to be offered since time immemorial. These Torii gates are infused with meaning of “wishes will come through or came through.”